May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends.
Blessing Irish
All political power is a trust.
Charles James Fox
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
Elizabeth Fry
The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.
Mikhail Strabo
The landed men are the true owners of our political vessel, the moneyed men are no more than passengers in it.
Henry St John
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
William Warburton
Skepticism. The first step toward truth.
Denis Diderot
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson
You are indebted to your imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
David Garrick
You may all go to pot.
Oliver Goldsmith
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Sir Joshua Reynolds
I saw and loved.
Edward Gibbon
There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.
William Pitt The Elder Chatham
Oh, my country! How I leave my country!
William Pitt
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
King Charles I
To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.
Magna Carta
It is therefore necessary that memorable things should be committed to writing, and not wholly betaken [i. e. , committed] to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning.
Sir Edward Coke
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individuals private rights.
Sir William Blackstone
A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
The beginning is always today.
Mary Wollstonecraft
It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.
James Mackintosh
I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!